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Title: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: Cafiend on Tue, 24 February 2015, 20:06:34: I'm looking forward to this tomorrow. I pre-ordered the collectors edition last May,which I don't do too often for games. But, I figured it was worth it since this was one of my most favorited games.

Anyone else looking forward to this?

Sadly, it will take a back seat for the moment because i'm currently playing thru Baldur's Gate EE. Another one of my favorites =p

:llama:
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 25 February 2015, 08:45:30: It's gonna be So baller... too bad I'm too poor.. and can't afford any game that's not $5 on steam sale.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: JinDesu on Wed, 25 February 2015, 08:57:31: I'm kicking myself for missing out the collector's edition - I preloaded the game last night so waiting to play~
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 25 February 2015, 08:58:18: Quote from: JinDesu on Wed, 25 February 2015, 08:57:31
I'm kicking myself for missing out the collector's edition - I preloaded the game last night so waiting to play~

I didn't even know there was a collectors edition.. heard it was sold out in minutes.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: Cafiend on Wed, 25 February 2015, 09:07:15: Haha I hear ya tissue. Love me some steam. I think the code you get is for steam...well I hope so atleast
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 25 February 2015, 14:57:55: I tried Homeworld 2.

I really tried it.

About half a dozen times.

I played through the first tutorial level, fine, no problems.

But as soon as I had to fend for myself in the game, miserable failure.

Every time.

I guess it's just not my type of game.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 26 February 2015, 12:19:02: good stuff..
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: JinDesu on Thu, 26 February 2015, 12:33:56: Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 25 February 2015, 08:58:18
Quote from: JinDesu on Wed, 25 February 2015, 08:57:31
I'm kicking myself for missing out the collector's edition - I preloaded the game last night so waiting to play~

I didn't even know there was a collectors edition.. heard it was sold out in minutes.

Not in minutes. It was introduced along with the game about a year ago, and for at least a month or two it wasn't sold out. Because of that, I didn't bother buying it at the time (and also because it didn't seem like it was a definite product).

I played the first few chapters of the campaign last night. Some sound issues during the training mode, where the cinematic sound would completely overwhelm the instruction voice, but otherwise...

...it's Homeworld! Without any crazy changes! The proper definition of a remastered edition!
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 26 February 2015, 13:32:45: u no.. the textures look way better than the original, but... it's still kindaaa crummy..

I even enabled that 8096 setting.. uses 1.7gb of vram.. @ 2560x1600, but yea.. textures look jaggy.. and idk wtf kind of aa they're using but still seeing jaggies @ 16x..
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: JinDesu on Thu, 26 February 2015, 15:06:39: Yeah the ship textures aren't smooth, but then again I think they wanted it to be playable on a lower end system. My 460 GTX is running it at max textures, 1600x900 (I have a 21" screen, so sue me), and 4xAA without any slow downs. I suspect they know people are just going to make like 50 ion frigates and they didn't want to crash systems.

But that being said, it looks pretty good overall especially considering I installed Homeworld classic onto my computer (I still have the CDs lol) and it was almost unplayable ;(

And the beam effects are pretty good I think. I'll take a closer look at the explosion effects tonight when I get home. I thought they were nice when I last looked.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 26 February 2015, 18:43:13: I feel like... I'm better at this game than when I was a kid.. I understand the importance of maneuvering and positioning..

HOWEVER.. This is still really hard to control because you just can't get the precision you want with such limited space..

If we had a 2 meter diameter Holographic table.. Now that would really make this game awesome..
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: Cafiend on Thu, 26 February 2015, 19:24:34: Oh I didn't realize that they changed the units. I liked the crabish looking resource collector better!
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: JinDesu on Thu, 26 February 2015, 19:34:13: Do you mean the Hiigaran collector? Or are you talking about the Kushan one?

The controls do lack finesse - more specifically with regards to mouse pan. Also since everything has to move in 3 dimensions with space physics, you sorta have to depend on the AI making the motions. But several years of starcraft has made multitasking a lot easier.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 26 February 2015, 20:47:24: Quote from: JinDesu on Thu, 26 February 2015, 19:34:13
Do you mean the Hiigaran collector? Or are you talking about the Kushan one?

The controls do lack finesse - more specifically with regards to mouse pan. Also since everything has to move in 3 dimensions with space physics, you sorta have to depend on the AI making the motions. But several years of starcraft has made multitasking a lot easier.

i find movement control very problematic when zoomed out.. much like the original..

It's a constant fight with the camera..

sigh....

I got through 5 missions.. but I don't have the patience as I once did as a kid for these gritty controls..
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 10:49:09: GDI... I totally captured a carrier righ... and it bugged out and wouldn't move..

THEN THEN... I finally got it back to the base righ.. the carrier had **** stored in it.. the carrier is captured, but the stuff inside still belongs to the enemy so then my base was swarming with crap.. because as soon as the converted carrier comes out of the mothership, it unloads the enemy inside.. frekaing...

AGhhhh.. (http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/4519626a.gif)
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: Cafiend on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:04:45: Haha! That's messed up
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: JinDesu on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:29:48: I heard there were some bugs here and there, I gotta try and capture a carrier to see what happens lol

I haven't had much trouble with the camera so far. Just have to be used to moving to the arrow keys for panning.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: metalliqaz on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:35:38: I saw The Cynical Brit's review and it looks pretty good. How much is it on Steam?
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 14:54:15: OMG.. more silliness..

So the in mission 10.. The one where you have to destroy the alien ship which is "mind controlling this large battlefleet...

It's so lop sided now.. because you can nearly insta-capture ALL the enemy vessels in this mission by kiting the initial attack,

So you end up capturing in 10 seconds..vvvvv

20x assault frigate, 1 missile destroyer, 2 multi-beam frigate, 1 ion frigate

I mean.. ^^^ that + the fleet you'd already have would make the rest of the game too easy imho..

I mean.. it exceeds frigate supply limit by 20+.. if the game was designed for 20 frigates... Now you have double that...

Sigh...........(http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/154218d4.gif)

Regardless... having fun... reminiscing the good ol' days...
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: JinDesu on Fri, 27 February 2015, 15:13:30: Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 14:54:15
OMG.. more silliness..

So the in mission 10.. The one where you have to destroy the alien ship which is "mind controlling this large battlefleet...

It's so lop sided now.. because you can nearly insta-capture ALL the enemy vessels in this mission by kiting the initial attack,

So you end up capturing in 10 seconds..vvvvv

20x assault frigate, 1 missile destroyer, 2 multi-beam frigate, 1 ion frigate

I mean.. ^^^ that + the fleet you'd already have would make the rest of the game too easy imho..

I mean.. it exceeds frigate supply limit by 20+.. if the game was designed for 20 frigates... Now you have double that...

Sigh...........
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(http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/154218d4.gif)

Regardless... having fun... reminiscing the good ol' days...

Salvage frigate is the easy way to beat the campaign. Which is what I'm doing of course. Just grab a bunch of multibeam frigates and bam, easy city until the end.

Quote from: metalliqaz on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:35:38
I saw The Cynical Brit's review and it looks pretty good. How much is it on Steam?

I think $29 or something like that.
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 17:40:34: So I'm eatin' this sandwich righ.. aannn all my stuff died.. (http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/042.gif)
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 19:16:22: Snatched all 3 attacking ships.. using a total of 14 salvage drones (max supply)..

They don't let you make 10000x anymore...
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:28:13: current army.. overlimit.. can't even build anything..

I don't understand this supply limit.. was there a hard mode I didn't click?

Traded in a few frigates to capture a few more capital ships that I can't build yet..
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 28 February 2015, 12:34:32: Playing this game as an adult has made me realize that I'd make a terrible space-captain.. However, I'd be a fantastic Space-Pirate.. (http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/th_111_.gif)
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 01 March 2015, 14:12:44: aghh.. game's broken.. so many exploitable bugs.. damn you lua scripts...

Strike-suit zero.. had the same game breaking problems, culprit, LUA... !!!
Title: Re: Homeworld Remastered!
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 03 March 2015, 12:05:11: Sigh.. overall.. this game is just too easy now that i'm old..

I remember the original being challenging.. now everything just feels tedious.. because the solutions are so obvious..